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Resourcely and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)

IDPs treat infrastructure like software frameworks. Resourcely helps platform teams build bulletproof infrastructure patterns and rules that developers will actually use.

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Resourcely is a configuration platform for cloud infrastructure: build advanced configuration patterns with embedded support for all cloud providers, safeguard your cloud with policy-as-code, and remediate vulnerabilities easily.

IDPs are focused on maintaining a service catalog, with service observability and scoring and basic UI-based templates that integrate with general-purpose templating tools like Cookiecutter.

How Resourcely and IDPs compare

Summary
Resourcely
IDPs
Goal
Configuration platform for creating and managing infrastructure with templates, rules, and migrations
Software catalogs focused on full-stack SLDC tools with a focus on metadata - who owns what, and what exists. Limited templating options.
Service Catalog
Infrastructure-specific
General-purpose, for SLDC
Templates
Input collection only
Guardrails

X

Migrations
Limited project management functionality
Deep Dive
Resourcely
IDPs
Templates
Built for...
Paved roads for configuring infrastructure as code
General purpose software dev templates
Creating a UI to take template inputs
Automatically created
Generally YAML
Configurable templating language
TFT
Bring your own templates
IDE with suggestions, debugging, testing, etc.
Yes, for cloud infrastructure
No native IDE
Pre-built best practice templates
Thousands
Limited
Create pull requests
Custom configuration
Defaults/descriptions
Enum values
Reusable across templates
Inline only
Smart suggestions and linking between resources

X

Integrated guardrails

X

Context-dependent configuration

X

Linkable templates
Templates can't be linked together
Knowledge graph of cloud services and their parameters

X

Templates publishable in a service catalog
Developer experience
Create customizable UI
Discover templates with a service catalog
Choose multiple templates via a Shopping Cart experience
Bundle templates together

X

Edit existing infrastructure using the same UI experience

X

Guardrails
Build and maintain infrastructure policies

X

Policies integrated into templates for feedback during configuration

X

Policies enforced during CI

X

Policies annotated in-line within PRs

X

Policies can automatically add missing configuration

X

Migrations
Create migration projects, assign owners, timelines, and state
Most IDPs have basic project management features
Define your desired infrastructure patterns

X

Scan for existing infrastructure that doesn't meet your standards

X

Preview IaC that doesn't meet your standards inline with the policies it violates

X

Generate and submit PRs that bring your infrastructure into compliance

X

Integrate Resourcely with IDPs

Combine your software catalog with faster and safer infrastructure configuration to unblock your developers

Embed Resourcely as your infrastructure source of truth

If you're already using an IDP but find the templating and guardrails experience lacking for infrastructure, easily embed Resourcely into Backstage, Cortex, OpsLevel, and more

Complement IDPs with a focus on infrastructure

Resourcely's integration with a knowledge graph of cloud infrastructure properties let you build infrastructure patterns and policies 80% faster than with other templating tools

Cloud infrastructure is complex

Resourcely helps platform teams build golden patterns for infrastructure faster than any other alternative

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